by Ric Pryor | Dec 30, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
No ones blames you for not giving Fast Eddie much of a chance. After all, it looks like what you’d get if you asked a four year old to make a Donkey Kong game. Its combination of crude graphics, garish colors and grating sound effects assaults your senses from...
by Ric Pryor | Dec 20, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
Something like 400 games were released for the Atari 2600 in North America during its commercial life. Another 50 or so, at least officially, weren’t. Bizarre games with thought-provoking titles like Hell Driver, Dead Ray, Hole Hunter and Square Game. While...
by Ric Pryor | Dec 12, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, Console/Handheld
Remember growing up with an Atari 2600 and being jealous of all your Oddyssey2 friends who got to play UFO! while you were stuck playing Asteroids? Wait, I got that backwards. Anyway, John Reder has ported UFO! to the 2600, so now it’s possible for you to relive...
by Ric Pryor | Dec 6, 2017 | 1980s
Arcades of the 1980’s were dens of sin and vice. Despised by right-thinking American parents as dark, smoke-filled places that turned wholesome suburban tweens into dope smoking video game zombies. Or so I learned later from reading things like Charles...
by Ric Pryor | Dec 3, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
Homebrew video games have come a long way since they first started appearing in the 1990’s. Not only the games themselves, but the way they’re packaged and sold. Long gone are the days of inkjet printed labels and photocopied instruction sheets. Current...